[nzlug] Job Ad: Chief Linux Geek/Network Manager

[Liz Quilty]

If nobody applys then i guess plan B .... BRING IN THE MONKEYS!

Liz
ps. I could always spend my last month writing a shell script to do my 
job if you really want ...


Jonathon Sim wrote:
> Alas, Liz is leaving us to move down south : we need someone new to 
> herd the servers into line and put the web into the websites :-)
>
> Here's the job ad for the interested. Everyone else: please ignore and 
> consider this post "[OT]" with apologies:
> -----
>
> We are looking for a new network/systems administrator/manager to join 
> our ever-growing team here in beautiful Albany, Auckland.
>
> We need someone who can help manage our (primarily linux-based) 
> internal network, and more importantly our large and rapidly growing 
> website hosting infrastructure.
>
> You will get to play with:
> * Lots of cool buzz words – add things like “high availability”, 
> “virtualisation” and “linux clusters” to your resume!
> * Tons of servers, all over the place
> * One day, when we hire someone new, you can be their boss and make 
> them fetch you coffee!
>
> Technologies that we use every day (you don't need to know them all, 
> but you will need to learn):
> * Lots of servers, lots of website hits, with lots more on the way
> * Programming : with lots of servers, you don't really manage servers, 
> you write software to manage servers. We have huge piles of custom 
> system configuration software, primarily written in Perl, Cfengine, 
> and the odd shell and PHP script. At least being able to output “hello 
> world” in some of those things would be a great start :-)
> * Debian & Ubuntu & Xen virtualisation
> * Apache, IPVS load balancing, Heartbeat, DRBD, NFS etc
> * MySQL (with replication) database servers
> * Lots of Linux desktops and laptops, some windows desktops & laptops, 
> the odd mac, and all the other weird things people plug into the wall 
> and expect to work
> * Emacs! (ok you don't need emacs, but extra marks if you use it. I 
> will begrudgingly accept misguided vim users for re-education, and 
> people who have never heard of either vim or emacs for destruction)
> * Whatever other cool stuff you add!
> * Documentation! Woohooo! (sorry, but everyone's got to do it)
>
> Ideally you will love tinkering with cool new stuff, building robust 
> systems that can scale massively, while working for a fun growing 
> company (I am installing a developer mini-golf facility as soon as we 
> move to our new office and have space :-) ) – think google without the 
> silicon-valley salary or perks :-)
>
> If you are interested email me *offlist* at jonathon.sim at zeald.com
>